About Us

The name Humes has been synonymous with quality engineered concrete products since 1910, when Walter Hume patented his invention for the manufacture of Steel Reinforced Concrete Pipe using the centrifugal spinning process. In 1920, The Hume Pipe Company was first floated on the local stock exchange with a nominal capital of about £500,000 and Walter as the managing director.

The Humes product range is diverse, and each is underpinned by rigorous scientific and engineering principles, focused and ongoing research and development activities and support from a wide range of professional engineers and scientists, many who are recognised as leaders in their chosen fields. The product range incorporates solutions for pipe and box culvert requirements, bridge and tunnel systems, a range of environmental products focused on storm water quality and the emerging water resource management sectors, building and communications products, products for the rail industry and a range of products for the rural sector.

As Walter Hume wrote in 1921, to a London based company, "You must realise that the value of the Hume patent lies in their conjunction with the accumulated experience of 11 years of experiments and manufacture of the actual product". Now, in the early years of the 21st century, with almost 100 years of accumulated experience, Humes provides unparalleled technical support to Australia's current and future infrastructure requirements - "Build on our Expertise".